abstract:Mark Kurlansky (born 7 December 1948 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. Kurlansky's newest book, Ready For a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America, will be released July 2013 from Riverhead Books.
MARKKURLANSKYhas written on a wide range of subjects, butis bestknown for his booksonfood—notably “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World” and “Salt: A World History”.
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MarkKurlansky is eating a steaming plate of chipirones en su tinta (squid in its own ink) at Marichu, a quaint, brick-walled Basque restaurant near United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.
In his Upper West Side office, MarkKurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.